Photos of the Week: February 15-21, 2016

Photos of the Week: February 15-21, 2016

1of13Kindergartner Colin Wolfert eats a spaghetti lunch from a recyclable plastic tray at Commodore Sloat School in San Francisco, Calif. on Friday, Feb. 19, 2016. Schools across the city have been asked not to place recyclable trays in recycle bins because of excess food particles clinging to them.Photo: Paul Chinn, The Chronicle

2of13Workers install window panes on a building under construction at a technology campus across from the BART station in San Leandro, Calif. on Thursday, Feb. 18, 2016. San Leandro is experiencing a building boom with two large projects nearing completion near the BART station and another project working its way through the planning process.Photo: Paul Chinn, The Chronicle

3of13Steve Schaffran prepares for an afternoon of sculling at Aquatic Park in Berkeley, Calif. on Monday, Feb. 15, 2016. High temperature records were expected to be broken throughout the region as the Bay Area continues to bask in warm weather.Photo: Paul Chinn, The Chronicle

4of13Great Blue Herons nest in the trees above during at the Mare Island Preserve during the annual Flyway Fest, on Sat. February 20, 2016, in Vallejo, California. The event is the Bay AreaÕs annual celebration of the more than a million birds of all types who make the Mare Island Preserve a stop on their migration trip along the Pacific Flyway.Photo: Michael Macor, The Chronicle

5of13Beef cattle head in to be fed at the Giammona ranch in Point Reyes National Seashore in Olema, Calif., on Thursday, February 18, 2016.Photo: Scott Strazzante, The Chronicle

6of13Ryan Giammona spreads hay to feed the beef cattle on his father's leased ranch in Point Reyes National Seashore in Olema, Calif., on Thursday, February 18, 2016.Photo: Scott Strazzante, The Chronicle

7of13Kinkajou Harley is held by San Francisco Zoo Education Specialist Amy Goodwin during an event where the San Francisco Zoo & Gardens presented 300 seniors from the S.F. Community Tenants Association with free Zoo tickets at the Willie Woo Woo Wong Chinese playground Feb. 17, 2016 in San Francisco, Calif. The Zoo brought a kinkajou named Harley to the event.Photo: Leah Millis, The Chronicle

8of13Rochelle Richard, 48, poses for a portrait Tuesday, Feb. 16, 2016 in her home in East Oakland, Calif. Richard has Sickle Cell Anemia which prevents her from working full-time and makes having a two bedroom home a necessity so that a caregiver can stay with her when she needs it. She has been fruitlessly looking for a new place to live since May of 2015 after she was informed her rent would go up.Photo: Leah Millis, The Chronicle

9of13Janine Looney (middle) from Morgan Hill shows family visiting from England and Aspen the view of the Golden Gate bridge from a turnout at the Marin Headlands in Marin County, California, on a windy day on Wednesday, February 17, 2016.Photo: Liz Hafalia, The Chronicle

10of13Maria Miyagi Bartuff, 85 years old, a survivor of the sinking of the Japanese freighter tsushima maru in 1944 when she was 13 years old shows her garden with her husband in San Anselmo, California, on Friday, February 19, 2016. The ship carried over 700 school children and was torpedoed by a U.S. submarine.Photo: Liz Hafalia, San Francisco Chronicle

11of13Kai Feiszli (l to r), 5, hugs his mother Jin Feiszli while watching his Starr King classmates practice soccer at the Beach Chalet athletic fields on Monday, February 15, 2016 in San Francisco, Calif.Photo: Lea Suzuki, The Chronicle

12of13Chinese dragons parade through the streets during the annual Chinese New Year Parade in San Francisco, Calif., on Saturday Feb. 20, 2016Photo: Brittany Murphy, The Chronicle

13of13A man casts a line from the beach into the Pacific Ocean in Pacifica, California, on Sunday, Feb. 21, 2016.Photo: Connor Radnovich, The Chronicle

This week we watched dragons dance down the streets of San Francisco for Lunar New Year, birds take flight and beautiful landscapes emerge from the morning light. Locals were treated to some windy afternoons and zoo visitors met Kinkajou Harley.

Kat Duncan is a picture editor, photographer and videographer at the San Francisco Chronicle where she has been working since June 2015. Before joining The Chronicle, she was a Visuals Editor, staff photographer and book reviewer for newspapers in Utah, Texas, Kansas, Massachusetts and New York. Originally from Los Angeles, she is a graduate of University of California Irvine and Boston University.